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Due to deforestation less and less c02 is being taken out of the atmosphere

This is causing our globe to heat up and our planet to die faster and faster and faster.

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  @HelcovichEmireRepublican from Maryland  commented…6mos6MO

yes, deforestation is bad, and leads to less carbon dioxide being taken out of the atmosphere, but as long as we don't keep cutting down so many trees and deforesting land, we don't need to overreact to global warming and sacrifice cheap and efficient energy (fossil fuels and other oils) just to try to reduce global warming.

 @B5JRBFDfrom Montana  disagreed…2mos2MO

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“we don't need to overreact to global warming and sacrifice cheap and efficient energy (fossil fuels and other oils) just to try to reduce global warming”

Absolutely. Energy and the costs of its extraction definitely plays a huge role in the way we view global warming. However, there are a few misconceptions implied or explicitly mentioned in your comment:

  1. Fossil fuels and other oils are very inefficient energy sources. A large amount of energy is wasted when extracting the energy present in these fuels. However, you are right in the sense that they are cheap. It is definitely cheaper, in a fiscal sense, to extract energy from fossil fuels as we utilize the same processes we used in the 1970s. But, we do pay a price - the price of the reluctancy to explore new ways of developing energy and the price of losing certain species due to global warming, and at some point, the areas we have once cherished in our lives.
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